Re: Device Driver

From: Olaf Titz (olaf@bigred.inka.de)
Date: Mon Oct 16 2000 - 09:32:28 EST


> See Documentation/SubmittingDrivers in a current kernel. (I've mailed you a

Speaking of that file,

< Portability: Pointers are not always 32bits, people do not all have
< floating point and you shouldn't use inline x86 assembler in
< your driver without careful thought. Pure x86 drivers

is IMHO not exactly right. _Nobody_ has floating point in kernel
space. Just because this is a FAQ it could be stressed more :-)

Olaf
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